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Events on the 10th of July in history

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10 Jul 2048 Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
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10 Jul 0138 Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
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10 Jul 0552 Origin of Armenian calendar
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10 Jul 0645 Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
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10 Jul 0988 The Norse King Glun Iarainn recognises Máel Sechnaill II, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
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10 Jul 1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
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10 Jul 1086 King Canute IV of Denmark killed by rebellious peasants.
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10 Jul 1212 The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
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10 Jul 1460 Wars of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at Northampton
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10 Jul 1460 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
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10 Jul 1499 The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
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10 Jul 1519 Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhengde a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
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10 Jul 1520 King Charles V and King Henry VIII signs treaty of Calais
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10 Jul 1553 Lady Jane Grey becomes Queen of England
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10 Jul 1553 Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
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10 Jul 1568 Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish
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10 Jul 1584 Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium
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10 Jul 1584 William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
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10 Jul 1598 Spanish theater plays "Moros y Los Cristianos" in Rio Grande
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10 Jul 1609 Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League
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10 Jul 1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded (Salem, Massachusetts)
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10 Jul 1645 English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
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10 Jul 1652 England declares war on Netherlands
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10 Jul 1690 Neth-French sea battle at Beachy Head (Cornelis Evertsen)
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10 Jul 1690 Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet
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10 Jul 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye
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10 Jul 1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
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10 Jul 1778 American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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10 Jul 1789 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
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10 Jul 1797 1st US frigate, the "United States, " is launched in Philadelphia
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10 Jul 1806 The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
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10 Jul 1810 Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France
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10 Jul 1821 The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
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10 Jul 1832 President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
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10 Jul 1832 The U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
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10 Jul 1847 Urbain J J Leverrier and John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel
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10 Jul 1847 Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune
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10 Jul 1850 U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming President upon Zachary Taylor's death.
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10 Jul 1850 VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
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10 Jul 1862 US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
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10 Jul 1866 Indelible pencil patents by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Massachusetts
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10 Jul 1873 French Poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol
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10 Jul 1875 L Schulhof discovers asteroid #147 Protogeneia
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10 Jul 1877 The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
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10 Jul 1882 War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
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10 Jul 1886 Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink and white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
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10 Jul 1886 George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company
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10 Jul 1886 Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white
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10 Jul 1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage)
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10 Jul 1890 Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
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10 Jul 1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state
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10 Jul 1892 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
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10 Jul 1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo
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10 Jul 1905 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
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10 Jul 1910 Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0
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10 Jul 1912 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
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10 Jul 1913 Romania declares war on Bulgaria
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10 Jul 1913 Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
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10 Jul 1913 134
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10 Jul 1914 Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles
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10 Jul 1915 British / South African troops march into German SW-Africa
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10 Jul 1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft
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10 Jul 1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established
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10 Jul 1919 Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage
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10 Jul 1919 President Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
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10 Jul 1920 Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary
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10 Jul 1921 Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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10 Jul 1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia)
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10 Jul 1923 All non-fascist parties disolved in Italy
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10 Jul 1924 Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim
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10 Jul 1924 Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam
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10 Jul 1925 Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
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10 Jul 1925 Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
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10 Jul 1925 Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial
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10 Jul 1925 USSR's official news agency TASS established
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10 Jul 1926 30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto Country Club - Ohio
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10 Jul 1926 Lake Denmark, New Jersey arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
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10 Jul 1928 Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout
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10 Jul 1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #3300
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10 Jul 1929 In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning
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10 Jul 1929 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
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10 Jul 1932 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd & continues to
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10 Jul 1933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, New York
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10 Jul 1934 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York
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10 Jul 1934 1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
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10 Jul 1934 AL beats NL 9-7 in 2nd All Star Game (Polo Grounds NY)
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10 Jul 1934 Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig & Foxx in the All star game
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10 Jul 1936 109
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10 Jul 1936 111
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10 Jul 1936 New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
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10 Jul 1936 Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game
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10 Jul 1937 Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"
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10 Jul 1938 "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic
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10 Jul 1938 Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours
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10 Jul 1938 Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
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10 Jul 1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air (114 days)
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10 Jul 1940 German planes attack British ships in the Canal
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10 Jul 1940 World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
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10 Jul 1940 World War II: Battle of Britain – The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
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10 Jul 1941 Jedwabne Pogrom: The massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
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10 Jul 1942 Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
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10 Jul 1942 World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
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10 Jul 1943 US and Britain invade Sicily in WWII (Operation Husky)
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10 Jul 1943 US & Britain invade Sicily in WW II
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10 Jul 1944 U-821 sinks
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10 Jul 1945 Lieutenant Admiral Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff
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10 Jul 1946 Belgian government of Acker, resigns
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10 Jul 1946 Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
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10 Jul 1947 Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0
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10 Jul 1947 Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
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10 Jul 1947 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China
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10 Jul 1948 "Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances
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10 Jul 1948 "Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 62 performances
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10 Jul 1948 Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army
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10 Jul 1949 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced - Toledo, Ohio
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10 Jul 1949 WJAR TV channel 10 in Providence, RI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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10 Jul 1950 "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV
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10 Jul 1951 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
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10 Jul 1951 Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
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10 Jul 1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
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10 Jul 1951 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1609 Brenda
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10 Jul 1951 NL beats AL 8-3 in 18th All Star Game (Briggs Stadium, Detroit)
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10 Jul 1953 82nd British Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 282 at Carnoustie Dai Rees
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10 Jul 1953 Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist]
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10 Jul 1956 23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington DC
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10 Jul 1956 650,000 US steel workers go on strike
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10 Jul 1956 NL beats AL 7-3 in 23rd All Star Game (Griffith Stad, Washington)
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10 Jul 1958 Ex-king Norodom Sihanoek appointed Premier of Cambodia
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10 Jul 1958 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
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10 Jul 1960 Belgium sends troops to Congo
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10 Jul 1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open)
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10 Jul 1962 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington
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10 Jul 1962 All star MVP: Maury Wills (LA Dodgers)
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10 Jul 1962 Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
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10 Jul 1962 Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
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10 Jul 1962 NL beats AL 3-1 in 32nd All Star Game (DC Stadium, Wash)
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10 Jul 1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
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10 Jul 1964 Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game
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10 Jul 1965 Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
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10 Jul 1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
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10 Jul 1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
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10 Jul 1966 US launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon
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10 Jul 1966 The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
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10 Jul 1966 Orbiter 1 launched to Moon
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10 Jul 1967 Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe"
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10 Jul 1967 Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
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10 Jul 1967 New Zealand adopts decimal currency.
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10 Jul 1968 NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969
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10 Jul 1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created
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10 Jul 1969 NL votes to split into 2 divisions
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10 Jul 1971 100th British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 278 at Royal Birkdale
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10 Jul 1971 Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed
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10 Jul 1971 Hassan II of Morocco survives an attempted coup d'état, which lasts until June 11.
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10 Jul 1972 Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)
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10 Jul 1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
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10 Jul 1973 Bahamas declares Independence from the UK and adopts constitution
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10 Jul 1973 The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
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10 Jul 1973 National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
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10 Jul 1973 John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
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10 Jul 1973 Bahamas gain independence after 300 yrs of British rule (Nat'l Day)
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10 Jul 1974 OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
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10 Jul 1975 Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married
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10 Jul 1975 Gladys Knight and Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV
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10 Jul 1976 105th British Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Royal Birkdale
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10 Jul 1976 Chemical factory in Milan explodes (dioxane cloud)
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10 Jul 1976 The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
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10 Jul 1976 One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
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10 Jul 1977 "Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances
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10 Jul 1977 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
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10 Jul 1978 Bloodless military coup in Mauritania
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10 Jul 1978 Military coup in Mauritania, President Moktar flees
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10 Jul 1978 ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
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10 Jul 1978 President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
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10 Jul 1978 E F Helinand E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3484
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10 Jul 1978 Military coup in Mauritania
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10 Jul 1979 Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion
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10 Jul 1980 Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
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10 Jul 1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
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10 Jul 1980 Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5
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10 Jul 1981 CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
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10 Jul 1982 Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week
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10 Jul 1982 Samuel Morses "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000
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10 Jul 1982 Zimbabwe beats Bermuda by 5 wickets to win ICC Trophy
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10 Jul 1982 Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze
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10 Jul 1983 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3222 Lillerand #3751
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10 Jul 1985 Playboy publishes full frontal nude pictures of Madonna
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10 Jul 1985 The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
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10 Jul 1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
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10 Jul 1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand
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10 Jul 1988 Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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10 Jul 1989 Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
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10 Jul 1990 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
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10 Jul 1990 All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
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10 Jul 1990 AL beats NL 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
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10 Jul 1990 AL beats NL 2-0 in 61st All Star Game (Wrigley Field Calif)
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10 Jul 1990 Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show
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10 Jul 1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of Russian Rep
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10 Jul 1991 The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
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10 Jul 1991 Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
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10 Jul 1992 John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners
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10 Jul 1992 Spaceship Giotto (Halley 1986) approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup
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10 Jul 1992 SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival
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10 Jul 1992 US Major Soccer League folds after 14 seasons
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10 Jul 1992 In Miami, Florida, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
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10 Jul 1993 Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi President / Sylvie Kinigi, Prime Minister
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10 Jul 1993 Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38)
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10 Jul 1994 "Hedda Gabler" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 33 performances
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10 Jul 1994 Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian weds Debbie Leavitt
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10 Jul 1994 Fred Norris (from the Howard Stern Show) marries Allison Furman
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10 Jul 1994 Kelly Robbins wins Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic by Owens-Corning
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10 Jul 1994 Nepal Premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns
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10 Jul 1997 Hideki Irabu makes his debut as a New York Yankee, he beats Tigers 10-3
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10 Jul 1997 RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads
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10 Jul 1997 In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
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10 Jul 1997 Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
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10 Jul 1998 Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
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10 Jul 2000 EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
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10 Jul 2002 At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
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10 Jul 2005 Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
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10 Jul 2007 Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
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10 Jul 2008 Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
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